ArticleBMC medical education2024
Medical student use of practice questions in their studies: a qualitative study.
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- Integrating the Triple Jump Exercise and gamification (G-Jump) to enhance learning outcomes among anesthesia students: a preliminary quasi-experimental study.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- First-year medical students' use of practice questions to understand science courses.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- The Use of Retrieval Practice in the Health Professions: A State-of-the-Art Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Pay to win? Exploring medical students' use of, and access to, paid commercial educational resources.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Medical students' perception of paid E-learning.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Practice questions are highly sought out for use as a study tool among medical students in undergraduate medical education. At the same time, it remains unknown how medical students use and incorporate practice questions and their rationales into their studies. To explore this heavily relied upon study strategy, semi-structured interviews were conducted with second-year medical students to assess how they approach using practice questions. Qualitative thematic analysis revealed several recurrent themes: (1) Medical students use practice questions for primary learning, (2) Medical students place more importance on the rationale of a practice question versus selecting the right answer, and (3) Medical students view practice questions as being designed to be used once or having a single-use. Together, these themes provide insight into how medical students use practice questions to study, which may guide medical educators in their creation of practice questions with appropriate rationales and provide foundational data for future mixed methods analyses seeking to generalize these findings.
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